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German Evangelical Church - Digital Archive
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territory of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee.
With increasing encroachment by non-Indigenous settlers in the Township of Puslinch, the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee could not continue their traditional lifestyle and settled in their villages along the Credit River and in the Grand River Valley. These Indigenous nations uphold their Treaty Rights within our jurisdiction.
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German Evangelical Church
Biographical Info
The German Evangelical Church or “Mount Carmel Zion United Church” was built in 1856 by the community of Morriston. The church was originally constructed in an Italianate style, with local bi-chrome brick and Gothic windows. In the 1880s, German masons Karl Beese and his son William made renovations with red brick expanding the church. Renovations included new elements such as articulated columns around the front entrance and salt-and-pepper bricks in the quoins at the structure corners.
Worship services were spoken in German until 1917.
The property is historically associated with the Morriston brickyard, German immigration, and German culture in Morriston.
Categories: Decade Built – 1850s, Decade Plaqued – 2000s, Gothic Style, Historical Association – German/Germany, Italianate Style, Materials – Brick, One-storey